Home State Blues: Liberalism's Wrecking Ball

All you have to do to see where liberal social and government policies lead is look at our most liberal states, New York, California and Illinois. They are fiscal and social basket cases, as Yale's Walter Russell Mead and a few others have noticed:

Illinois politicians, including the present President of the United States, have wrecked one of the country’s potentially most prosperous and dynamic states, condemned millions of poor children to substandard education, failed to maintain vital infrastructure, choked business development and growth through unsustainable tax and regulatory policies — and still failed to appease the demands of the public sector unions and fee-seeking Wall Street crony capitalists who make billions off the state’s distress.

 Read it all here.